Conclusion

It’s up and running, we’ll see how stable it is. In this case the code is very sloppy, the focus was to get this concept up and running, so I decided to host it on BitBucket where I have private repositories on a free account.

The AppHarbor experience was great, no fuss to get it up and running, via the authorise AppHarbor app action when I was taken to BitBucket. Even setting up a back end store was very easy.

The hardest part was working out how to deal with the Twitter API, and that was only tricky because I was in a hurry to just get it working, without reading enough documentation.

It’s unlikely I’ll make time to tidy up that code so it can be of any reasonable use to anyone, there’s too many hack points to get it operational, in particular around twitter API keys, for the application that performs the posting, and the user linked to the account. Not to mention hard coded connection strings with passwords in them. Quite a long list of what-not-to-do.

I did like that the wizard does warn you of such bad behaviour. There’s some insight into the storage model on the back end 😉